Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Lamenting Lie Face?

Networks like MSNBC need to act right. Yes, of course they must meet
ratings demands. But far too often these kinds of entities capitalize on
the labor and talent of folks like Harris-Perry, then quickly dispose
of them when their views no longer line up with the network’s. Ask Keith
Olbermann, Martin Bashir, Al Sharpton, Alex Wagner, Karen Finney, Joy
Reid or others. Kudos to Melissa Harris-Perry and respect to her for
fighting the good fight, refusing to be silent and knowing not only her
worth, but that “the master’s tools will not dismantle the master’s house.”
No, not Joan of Arcadia -- that show is at least worth lamenting.

Trimiko is writing about her friend Melissa Harris Lacewell Perry who got dumped by MSNBC for a number of reasons -- chief among them her belief that she could dictate to the network what she could do.

She infamously announced she would not show for the live weekend coverage.

She did other things but that was the key.

You can't refuse to show up for work -- especially live TV -- and expect to keep your job.

Lie Face.

That was the name she earned.

Trimiko forgets to talk about ethics.

Melissa has none. She began campaigning for Barack in 2007.

But in 2008, she went on programs -- Democracy Now!, Charlie Rose, etc. -- and 'forgot' to disclose that as she sat in as a 'professor' with no dog in the fight.

She lied.

She's a liar.

She was a low rated liar which also hurt her show.

These are facts.

I love how Trimiko cites Keith Olbermann -- like it's been a sweep of firings.

Chris Matthews: Were you smart about Iraq? Endorsing the
president's position on Iraq? Did you believe ever that Saddam Hussein
-- when you had a chance to vote to authorize that war in Iraq -- did
you ever believe Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons?Hillary Clinton: I did.Chris Matthews: Who told you?Hillary Clinton: Well I know at the end of the [my husband's] Clinton
administration there was a strong sense that he was reconstituting his
nuclear weapons program. And I like to remind people that at the end of
the 90s there was a sense of the Congress passed that my opponent
[Senator] Bernie Sanders voted for basically talking about regime change
in Iraq --Chris Matthews: That was neocon stuff.[Cross talk]Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders voted for it!Chris Matthews: Why --Hillary Clinton: Chris, I'm just telling you. That was the prevailing opinion. And look, I've said it was a mistakeChris Matthews: I want to know about the facts. Because if you were
told by someone that he had nuclear weapons, they weren't telling the
truth because Mike Morrell, who was the chief CIA briefer on the subject
told me on my show that they never told anybody because they had no
evidence that they had nuclear weapons. So who, if it wasn't the CIA
told you that they had nuclear weapons?Hillary Clinton: Well what was going on was a continuing intensive inspection program. Remember Hans Blix?Chris Matthews: I remember it all.Hillary Clinton: And Hans Blix and his team of inspectors were
trying to get to the bottom of this. Now here's what was misleading is
that Saddam Hussein could have ended it immediately. He could have said
come anywhere, look anywhere, we have nothing. But he didn't choose to
do that. And so inspectors were racing to get to all the sites --Chris Matthews: Yeah.Hillary Clinton: -- because they were worried because remember, at
the end of the first Gulf War, we did find evidence of a nuclear weapons
program. Then we had a number of years where we were flying a no-fly
zone over Iraq and where we saw him diverting a lot of money not just
into building palaces but building, we thought, programs.Chris Matthews: In the fall of 2002, Dick Cheney said Saddam Hussein
had nuclear weapons even though the CIA never told him that.Hillary Clinton: Well --Chris Matthews: No, the question is was Donald Trump right when he said they lied?Hillary Clinton: Well you know, I think that -- What Mike Hayden and
others have said was an intelligence failure. Now I don't know --Chris Matthews: Yeah but they never said they had nuclear weapons. How could it be a 'failure'?Hillary Clinton: They led some people to believe that --Chris Matthews: Yeah, but not with evidence. You didn't have evidence did you?Hillary Clinton: We had -- What we had -- what I had, let me speak for myself --Chris Matthews: You never had evidence of nuclear weapons.Hillary Clinton: No. But that was because the inspection program
had not been completed and where I stood was I believed George W. Bush
when he said we are going to let the inspectors finish the job. This
vote will give me the leverage, he claimed, to make sure that happens.
Read Hans Blix's book --Chris Matthews: Why did you trust George W.?Hillary Clinton: Well, you know, I-I thought that using diplomacy --
which seemed to me was what he was offering -- made a lot of sense.

She's lying yet again.

She can only lie, that's all she has to offer.

She never objected when Bully Boy Bush refused to let the inspectors finish their job.

“Part of what certainly influenced me” to support
the Iraq war was George Bush pledging billions to rebuild New York after
9/11 a year before her vote, Hillary Clinton said last night. The
comment is getting a lot of attention: folks are asking whether Hillary Clinton got bribed to support the Iraq war.

Hillary Clinton claimed during a town hall that its unfair to compare her vote for the Iraq War to her support for forced regime change in Libya because 'we didn't lose a single person' in the latter country.

The
statement ignores the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in
Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012 that killed four Americans,
including American Ambassador Chris Stevens, while she was secretary of
state.

Clinton's
regime change record came up during an interview with Chris Matthews
yesterday evening on MSNBC in the context of the Democratic presidential
race and Bernie Sanders' opposition to U.S. involvement in both
conflicts.

The four Americans known to be killed* were Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and Chris Stevens.

*Known to be killed?

Hillary has offered Congressional testimony of meeting with other
victims of the attack in a military hospital and some of them dying.

It's Congressional testimony -- in an open forum -- and no one ever wants to question her on that.

Even though she's a serial liar who repeatedly gets caught lying.

Her latest lie ("we didn't lose a single person") has generated strong responses such as this Tweet:

Over at David Brock's Bordello, professional whores Tyler Cherry, Nick
Fernandez and Bobby Lewis try all forms of positions to try to make
believe Hillary was not forgetting Benghazi, just speaking of the
conflict.

David's service boys should close their mouths and legs and probably
bathe in something stronger than soap to get rid of the crabs.

They're lying and whoring.

Reality, Barack didn't put US boots on the ground in the battle.

Hillary knows that.

So her self-praise that "we didn't lose" a person in Libya?

Her concern should be with the people of Libya.

She supported war on Libya and she should be concerned about what the support brought.

As for her little whore David Brock, no one believes a word that comes out of David Brock's Bordello.

We can ask women in Iraq and Syria if they have benefited from Hillary's interventionist policies

Zaid Jilani added,

Katie Halper@kthalps

Would you support a hawkish, pro-death penalty, pro-fracking male candidate? No? So own that identity politics trumps all #DemTownHall

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Today, the US Defense Dept announced/bragged:Strikes in IraqRocket artillery and attack, fighter and remotely piloted
aircraft conducted 14 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support
of the Iraqi government:

-- Near Huwayjah, a strike suppressed an ISIL mortar position.

-- Near Hit, four strikes struck a
large ISIL tactical unit and an ISIL improvised weapons factory,
destroying four ISIL fighting positions and suppressing an ISIL rocket
position.

-- Near Kirkuk, two strikes
destroyed an ISIL heavy machine gun and an ISIL fighting position and
suppressed an ISIL fighting position.

-- Near Mosul, four strikes struck
an ISIL training camp and two ISIL improvised explosive device
factories and destroyed four ISIL assembly areas.

-- Near Qayyarah, a strike destroyed an ISIL mortar position.

-- Near Ramadi, two strikes struck two large ISIL tactical units.

Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic
events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a
single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a
single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle
is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons
against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for
example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or
impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not
report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number
of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual
munition impact points against a target.

The Iraq War started under Bully Boy Bush continues under Barack Obama and would continue under Hillary Clinton.